1927

Dow, George Francis, 1868-1936

Book

Title: Slave ships and slaving

With an introduction by Captain Ernest H. Pentecost. Published by the Marine Research Society, Salem, Massachusetts.

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1821

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Henry Clay's letter on emancipation.

While opposed to slavery, Clay argues that emancipation is a greater evil. His solution combined gradual emancipation with colonization. He says that the "Social, moral and political degradation would be the inevitable lot of the colored races" and points to the severity of Northern penal legislation against Black freedpeople. First edition.

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7 June 1827

New Hampshire Auxiliary Colonisation Society

Pamphlet

Title: The third annual report of the New Hampshire Auxiliary Colonisation Society, presented and read at the meeting of the society, held in Concord, June 7, 1827.

Includes some discussion of Liberia, missionary work and a recent speech of Henry Clay, president of the national Society. First edition. Printed at the Repository and Observer office. Stamp of Dartmouth College Library.

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1832

Converse, John Kendrick, 1801-1880

Pamphlet

Title: A Discourse, on the moral, legal and domestic condition of our colored population, preached before the Vermont Colonization Society, at Montpelier, October 17, 1832.

Converse preaches that Blacks, "though they might be freemen in name, can never be raised to the rank and privileges of freemen in this country." He blames white American racism for this situation and proposes colonization as the solution. First edition. Printed by the University Press. Converse was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont.

GLC00267.050

1837

Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

Pamphlet

Title: Fifth annual report of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, with some account of the annual meeting, January 25, 1837.

First edition. Printed by Isaac Knapp. List of lifetime members of the Society on the back cover. Contains a report and proceedings of the annual meeting, which began on 25 January. One section of the report states: "Abolitionists may not, therefore, slumber at their post, or relax a single effort. It is true, a mighty change has been wrought in individual sentiment within the last five years, favorable to the right of our colored countrymen; but public sentiment is still powerfully enlisted on the side of slavery."

GLC00267.051

1839

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips Esq.

Attacks colonizationists like Senator Henry Clay, "who dream of removing slavery by the process of draining it off to another country; a process about as reasonable as that of draining the Atlantic." He also argues that colonization confirms racial prejudice implicit in race-based slavery. Published by James Munroe and Company, Boston. Printed by Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge. First edition.

GLC00267.052

1851

Peabody, Ephraim, 1807-1856

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery in the United States: its evils, alleviations and remedies.

Reprinted from the North American Review. Sees colonization as the only solution to slavery. "Were legal slavery abolished at the South, it would probably be centuries before it could be abolished from the Southern mind." Believes abolitionist pressure is counter- productive: "Whatever important ends slavery agitation at the North may have accomplished, it has paralyzed and struck down the southern friends of freedom." First edition. Printed by Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.056

1820

Spring, Gardiner, 1785-1873

Book

Title: Memoirs of the Reverend Samuel J. Mills, late missionary to the South Western section of the United States...

(title continues)... and agent of the American Colonization Society, deputed to explore the coast of Africa. By Spring as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York. Published by the New-York Evangelical Missionary Society.

GLC00267.057

1864

Murphy, John, 1812-1880

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the bench and bar of Baltimore, upon the occasion of the death of the Hon. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Prints speeches of Maryland lawyers and judges eulogizing Taney. Includes speeches of William Price, District Attorney, Judge Giles, Mr. Wallis, William Schley, Judge Merrick, Andrew Sterett Ridgely, and Reverdy Johnson, an abolitionist who discusses Taney's decision on the Dred Scott case in 1857 and relates some anecdotes. Printed by John Murphy & Co.

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1865

Baker, Godwin & Co.

Pamphlet

Title: The unjust judge. A memorial of Roger Brooke Taney, late Chief Justice of the United States.

Contains a critical review of Taney's career and his decision in the Dred Scott case, where he upheld the existing slavery laws. Discusses the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as they relate to the issue of slavery in the United States.

GLC00267.060

1857

Nott, Samuel, 1788-1869

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery and the remedy; or, the principles and suggestions for a remedial code.

"Fifth edition: with a review of the decision of the supreme court in the case of Dred Scott." First edition published after Dred Scott, with a review of the case. Nott is an apologist for the court. Reminds readers of the possibility of secession if the decision favored the abolitionist cause, and reminds them also of American racism. The rest of the book is a treatise on the reasons for and law of slavery. Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, and Crocker and Brewster, Boston.

GLC00267.061

1827

North Carolina, General Assembly

Book

Title: Acts passed at the general assembly of the state of North Carolina, at its session, commencing on the 25th of December, 1826.

Signed by [Danl S. Paterson?]. Printed by Lawrence & Lemay. Includes an act prohibiting trading with enslaved people, an act regulating the survey and sale of lands recently acquired from the Cherokee, and "An act to prevent free persons of colour from migrating into this State, for the good government of such persons resident in the States, and for other purposes." Contains many other laws.

GLC00267.063

1835

North Carolina, General Assembly

Book

Title: Acts passed at the general assembly of the state of North Carolina, at the session of 1834-1835.

Printed by Philo White, printer to the state. Some pages uncut. Contains acts and resolutions.

GLC00267.064

1850

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the United States Senate on the Fugitive Slave Bill,- the abolition of the slavetrade in the District of Columbia, - and the imprisonment of free colored seamen in the Southern ports ...

Includes speeches of Senators John Davis, Grenville Winthrop, and others. Printed by T. R. Marvin.

GLC00267.066

28 February 1842

United States. Congress (27th, 3d session : 1842)

Pamphlet

Title: Schooner Amistad: message from the President of the United States, transmitting sundry...

(title continues)... letters between the Department of State and Chevalier d'Argaiz on the subject of the schooner 'Amistad.' Contains messages from President John Tyler, Secretary of State Daniel Webster, and Chevalier d'Argaiz, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain. Number 191.

GLC00267.067.01

11 May 1830

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Francis Larche.

21st Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives document no. 401. The Senate referred a bill to the Committee of Claims for the relief of Francis Larche, who sought reimbursement for an enslaved person killed while impressed into U.S. service.

GLC00267.071

1857

Helper, Hinton R., 1829-1906

Book

Title: The Impending crisis of the South: How to meet it

First edition. Signed as presented by Samuel A. Winsor. Published by the Burkick Brothers, New York. Bookplate removed. In 1857, Hinton Rowan Helper, the son of a western North Carolina farmer, published one of the most politically influential books ever written by an American. 'The Impending Crisis of the South' argued that slavery was incompatible with economic progress. Using statistics drawn from the 1850 census, Helper maintained that by every measure the North was growing far faster than the South and that slavery was the cause of the South's economic backwardness. Helper's thesis…

GLC00267.074

1841

United States. Census Office. 6th census, 1840.

Book

Title: Compendium of the enumeration of the inhabitants and statistics of the United States, as obtained at the department of state, from the returns of the sixth census, by counties and principal towns.

Prepared at the Department of State. Printed by Thomas Allen. With "Dublin" handwritten on the front cover.

GLC00267.082

8 February 1836

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery in the District of Columbia.

24th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives document no. 691. States that Congress cannot interfere with slavery in the district of Columbia or any other states in the Confederacy. Instead, Congress formed a select committee to deal with any issues in relation to the subject. Henry L. Pinckney was one of the committee members and the law became known as the "Pinckney Gag." Printed by Blair & Rives, printers. Partially uncut.

GLC00267.091

1840

Slade, William, 1786-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right to petition; the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia;...

Title continues, "...the implied faith of the north and the south to each other in forming the constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition." Slade, a Congressman from Vermont, protests the Gag rule, which prohibited the issue of slavery in the District of Columbia from being discussed in the House of Representatives. Delivered in the House of Representatives, 18 and 20 January 1840. Printed by Gales and Seaton in Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.093

1841

Ingersoll, Charles J., 1782-1862

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, on the subject of the reception of abolition petitions.

Speech given in the House of Representatives 8 & 9 June 1841. Printed at the Globe Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.094

1844

Severance, Luther, 1797-1855

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Severance, of Maine on the right of petition.

Delivered in the House of Representatives, 16 February 1844. Discusses the ban on receiving any petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in the House of Representatives. Printed by J. and G.S. Gideon, Washington, D.C. Partially uncut.

GLC00267.095

1820

Sergeant, John, 1779-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Sergeant, on the Missouri question.

First edition. Speech delivered in the House of Representatives arguing that Missouri should be added to the Union as a free state. Sergeant was a Congressman from Pennsylvania.

GLC00267.098

1841

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: [House Document 36 on Daniel Webster's Retirement and "Mr. Webster and His Revilers"]

The first part of this document includes Webster's statement of resignation from Senate, written 10 February 1841. The second part contains an article first published 24 April [1840?] in the Washington, D.C. newspaper The National Intelligencer defending Webster against public attacks on his character. Also includes items printed 2 April [1840?] in the newspaper The New York Express regarding Webster's highly debated opinion on the War of 1812, and an extract from Webster's 22 March 1838 reply to South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun on the topic of war.

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1844

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Senate and documents relative to Texas, from which the injunction of secrecy has been removed.

Uncut congressional pamphlet that includes a copy of the proposed treaty admitting Texas to the Union. Printed by the 28th Congress, 1st Sess. Senate document no. 341.

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